New York Fall 2014, Loehmann's Closing

New York Fall 2014: Elements | Texture - Video - NYTimes.com: "New York Fall 2014: Elements | Texture BY TAIGE JENSEN February 8th, 2014 A thematic visual diary of New York Fashion Week inspired by the essential building blocks of fashion and style."

Loehmann’s, Out of Step and Closing Down - NYTimes.com: " . . . Loehmann’s is merely the latest retail enterprise in its genre to go down; the demise of Filene’s Basement and Daffy’s preceded it. Stores specializing in off-price, as the jargon goes, designer clothing certainly suffered at the hands of online purveyors like Gilt, in addition to the expansion of conventional department stores into the market. But the Loehmann’s ethos, especially in New York, is also a casualty of a heightened interest in acute specialization, the notion that shopping should feel more like cultural enrichment than commercial diversion. . . ."

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Priyanka Chopra, Face of Guess (video)

Priyanka's American Debut - Video - NYTimes.com: "Priyanka Chopra is a household name in India. But she is a relative unknown in America, where she spent a part of her childhood. She hopes that being the new face of Guess will change that."

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Fashion Documentaries, Fashion Sites

Top 10 best fashion documentaries you have to watch - Swide: "In the fashion world everyone knows her name, yet former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief Carine Roitfeld has rarely let the outside world in, until now. Director Fabien Constant documents her life as she prepared to launch her own Magazine in NY, the CR Fashion Book."

Update On Top 10 Sales From A Year Ago This Week: Izabel.com, Estate.com, CifraClub.com, More | Accidental Domainer: "A London-based women’s fashion site founded in 2012. “the latest catwalk styles at high street prices” Alexa rank near 850,000."

Fashion Documentaries: A Fashion Do | Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP - JDSupra: "... tension may exist between the desire of fashion houses and designers to promote their brands in a particular light, and documentary filmmakers’ desire to capture the provocative truth, whether positive or negative.  Even when the filmmaker has a vested interest in the brand’s success, it may have a particular point of view which is not in line with the brand’s marketing goals.  Therefore, when contemplating whether to pull back the curtain for the cameras, it’s important for a fashion brand to consider all the potential issues which may arise from the release of a fashion documentary featuring the brand and to preemptively address these potential issues during contract negotiations with the filmmaker involved with the project..."

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Fashion Is Art, Wynwood Neighborhood of Miami (video)

Fashion Is Art in the Wynwood Neighborhood of Miami - NYTimes.com: "Intersection: Style Is Art in Miami - Isis Miller, a 27-year-old barista in the Wynwood neighborhood in Miami, looks to Katharine Hepburn’s style for her fashion inspiration."

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